30th annual public service and outreach awards

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30th AnnualPublic Service and Outreach

Awards

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2021 Awards for Excellence in Public Service and Outreach

Award Recipients

Walter Barnard Hill Fellow Award for Distinguished

Achievement in Public Service and Outreach

Robert C. Kemerait Jr.

Walter Barnard Hill Award for Distinguished Achievement

in Public Service and Outreach

Carolina Darbisi

Leigh Askew Elkins

Keri Gandy Hobbs

Mark Lupo

David Tanner

Public Service and Outreach Staff Award for Excellence

Lisa Gentit

Engaged Scholar Award

Edward Delgado-Romero


Walter Barnard Hill Fellow Award for Distinguished Achievement in Public

Service and Outreach

About the Award

Robert C. Kemerait Jr.College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Robert C. Kemerait Jr. is a professor and extension specialist in plant pathology at the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. During his 21 years at UGA, Kemerait has made significant inroads in securing the food supply both here and abroad by helping growers protect their crops against diseases, nematodes and weather.

Working with UGA Extension agents across Georgia, Kemerait specializes in disease and nematode management of peanuts, corn, cotton and soybeans. He led the effort to create Peanut Rx, an internationally recognized disease forecasting tool for peanut farmers, and continues to spearhead the annual update of a tool to help farmers combat leaf spot, white mold, and tomato spotted wilt virus, which once threatened the future of the peanut industry in Georgia and in the southeastern U.S. Kemerait prepares extension agents to address challenges to growers, with trainings, informative lectures, on-farm visits and daily “Row Crop Disease Updates.” He guides extension agents through on-farm research trials that address local needs of the farmers and contribute to the professional development and career-advancement of the agents. He supports, trains and mentors UGA graduate students, while ensuring that collaboration with extension agents is included in the research objectives for graduate student education.

Kemerait has assisted farmers in developing countries in Asia, the Caribbean and South America. He has been a part of USAID-funded development projects through which he worked with farmers in Guyana, Haiti and the Philippines to plant improved varieties, better manage diseases and reduce the impact of aflatoxin.

Since receiving the Hill Award in 2014, Kemerait’s work has continued to be recognized. He was selected to the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright Specialist Program in 2020, received the “Peanut Research and Education Award” from the American Peanut Council in 2016, and was named a Fellow of the American Peanut Research and Education Society in 2015.

“In my opinion, Bob has established himself as one of the leading extension plant pathologists in the Southeast, if not the country,” said Bart Davis, owner and operator of Davis Family Farms in Doerun, Georgia. “Bob is an idea person, a watchdog for emerging pest issues …The cotton, corn, peanut, and soybean growing communities in Georgia are blessed to have him working on their behalf.”

The Walter Barnard Hill Fellow Award is UGA’s highest award in public service and outreach and is comparable to a distinguished professorship. It recognizes sustained, distinguished, superb achievement, and contributions to improving the quality of life in Georgia or elsewhere. The selection committee considers long-term achievements, special projects having extraordinary impact and collaborative efforts. The creativity, impact, and superb nature of a Hill Fellow’s achievements greatly exceed the normal accomplishments of a productive faculty member.

The appointee receives a medallion, a framed certificate and an award to sustain or enhance the honoree’s public service and outreach endeavors or to support the development of new ones. Like the Hill Award, the Hill Fellow Award is named in honor of Chancellor Walter Barnard Hill, who led UGA from 1899 until his death in 1905. His desire for more university involvement in Georgia and his application of these goals and ideas helped pave the way for a modern public service–oriented university.


Walter Barnard Hill Award for Distinguished Achievement in Public

Service and Outreach

About the Award Since 1992, the Walter Barnard Hill Award has recognized distinguished achievement in public service and outreach by UGA faculty members and service professionals. Recipients have made contributions to the improvement of the quality of life in Georgia or elsewhere of an order that greatly exceeds the normal accomplishments of a productive faculty member. A maximum of five Hill Awards may be presented each year.

Each awardee receives a medallion and a framed certificate. Only Hill Award winners are eligible for a Walter Barnard Hill Fellow Award for Distinguished Achievement in Public Service and Outreach.

The award is named in honor of Chancellor Walter Barnard Hill, who led UGA from 1899 until his death in 1905. Hill first articulated the university’s modern public service and outreach mission. He admired the close relationship that existed between the University of Wisconsin and the state of Wisconsin and led a pilgrimage of nearly 100 Georgians to see the “Wisconsin Idea” in action. As a result of this journey and the power of Hill’s vision, Georgia’s leadership endorsed Hill’s plan for a modern, public service–oriented university and backed that endorsement with increased support for the institution.

Carolina DarbisiJ.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development

Carolina Darbisi is a senior public service faculty member and assistant director for research and evaluation in the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development. Her work has helped build strong pipelines of leadership among women, multicultural populations and in public health circles within Georgia and beyond.

For 13 years, Darbisi has focused on designing and evaluating leadership programs, collaborating with other UGA departments as well as organizations outside the university.

Darbisi developed programs for the Lynda Brannen Williamson Foundation in Statesboro and Girls Inc. in Columbus to help them guide young women into future leadership roles. Darbisi’s programming has been used by the national Girl’s Inc. organization to train nearly 200 girls in multiculturalism, diversity and inclusion.

Darbisi designed and leads UGA’s Leadership Sin Limites (LSL), which helps Latino youth prepare for college. In 2009, the state contracted with Fanning to replicate the LSL program for migrant youth statewide. Migrant Education Leadership Without Limits, led by Darbisi, is an intensive on-campus program that targets migrant youth in communities with large Hispanic populations.

As a co-principal investigator and lead designer of the Public Health Leadership Academy, Darbisi collaborated with the UGA College of Public Health to increase the capacity of leaders across communities to work together on public health-related challenges and promote a “culture of health” in their respective organizations and communities.

That work led to Darbisi’s role in developing the Region IV Public Health Leadership Institute, which provides leadership training in state, local, and tribal public health organizations in eight southeastern U.S. states. The institute is designed to advance adaptive and strategic leadership skills to support multi-sector vision setting and leadership necessary to address the social, community-based and economic determinants of health.

Darbisi founded the Latin Leadership Global Scholars member interest group of the International Leadership Association (ILA), which is committed to advancing leadership knowledge and practice for a better world.

“Carolina is a scholar and a leader that exemplifies the ILA values of inclusion, integrity, interconnection, interdisciplinary, international perspective and impact,” said Bridget Chisholm, ILA director of conferences. “Her commitment to and research within the scholarly communities of Latin leadership and women and leadership is a testimonial to her passion and commitment.”


Keri Gandy HobbsCollege of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Keri Gandy Hobbs is a UGA Extension Specialist in 4-H and youth programs in UGA Cooperative Extension, part of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Her work in volunteer programming resulted in a more efficient preparations program for 4-H volunteers, which has been adopted across Georgia and in other states.

Hobbs began her extension career in 2007 as the Sumter County 4-H agent and later the Jackson County agent. She was promoted to Jackson County Extension Coordinator in 2014, and to her current position in 2015. Since 2011, Hobbs has won seven individual or team National Association of Extension 4-H Youth Development Professional Awards.

Hobbs enhanced the volunteer program for Georgia 4-H by creating the volunteer orientation framework “Getting Started,” a two-time national award-winning program. Her program, which established a more efficient volunteer preparation process, was rolled out as a pilot program on the local level, and when proven successful was extended statewide. Hobbs has shared “Getting Started” with other state 4-H representatives at national conferences.

Since 2012, Hobbs has spent time researching topics relevant to her career, including volunteerism, disaster preparedness and risk management, with her findings resulting in the expansion of her volunteer preparedness programming. Hobbs has led 16 trainings across the state, certifying nearly 200 extension employees in CPR/AED/First Aid since 2015.

Hobbs also brought the My Preparedness Initiative (MyPI), a national youth preparedness, leadership and educational outreach program, to Georgia for high school students. With Hobbs’ guidance, UGA 4-H personnel and community volunteers established eight MyPI programs in communities throughout the state. More than 150 youths from six counties participated in the MyPI programs, with 85 completing all components and officially graduating from MyPI Georgia.

“I have observed that Keri has always risen to the strenuous challenges of an extension workload and has far surpassed the normal calls of service,” said Ryan Akers, project director for MyPI National. “As an intuitive individual, Keri has always offered insightful opinions that lead me to believe that she will continue to be a strong, intelligent leader in her community and profession and will remain a tremendous asset to UGA Extension, Georgia 4-H , andits clientele.”

Leigh Askew ElkinsCarl Vinson Institute of Government

Leigh Askew Elkins is a senior public service associate with the Planning and Environmental Policy Program at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. She has been instrumental in helping communities integrate natural resources into economic development projects and protecting the state’s environment.

Over her 15 years of service at UGA, Elkins has used her skills as a facilitator and strategic

planner to lead more than 80 distinct projects representing over $4.4 million in grants and contracts.

She has built a reputation across the state as a specialist in natural resources and community planning, policy, and design. While she focuses on Georgia, she has led or collaborated on projects in Tennessee, Alabama, Florida and Costa Rica.

Since joining UGA in 2005, she has provided technical and research assistance to local governments, state and local agencies, UGA Extension and academic and Public Service and Outreach units, and national nonprofit organizations. She has been a key figure in facilitating water resource management and other environmentally related topics for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Environmental Protection Division and Coastal Resources Division, the Jekyll Island Authority, and dozens of cities and communities across the state.

While working as a Public Service Associate with the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development from 2005-2012, Elkins facilitated and managed the public input process for the development of Georgia’s Statewide Water Management Plan. This included coordinating seven Basin Advisory Committees along with the collaborative facilitation of the State Advisory Committee, totaling nearly 50 group meetings and 22 town hall meetings. Elkins’ efforts on the project led Georgia DNR’s Environmental Protection Division to once again work with her on reviewing plan implementation and determining next steps for four Regional Water Planning Councils representing 62 counties across Georgia.

“I have worked with Leigh in several capacities since 2006 and am truly impressed with her commitment to public service,” said Lindsay Thomas, a five-term former U.S. Congressman from Georgia. “Her thoughtful and humble approach to her work, her ease of facilitating challenging conversations, and her ability to communicate with diverse audiences are assets that not only benefit the University of Georgia, but the State of Georgia as well.”


Mark LupoSmall Business Development Center

Mark Lupo is a senior public service associate with the UGA Small Business Development Center’s state office, where he serves as the business education and resilience specialist. Since joining the SBDC in 2005, Lupo has built a national reputation as an expert in businesses continuity and emergency preparedness, using his experiences as a small business owner and Army veteran to help

countless businesses prepare for and survive unexpected crises.

Over the past 15 years, Lupo has been recruited both locally and across the country to give lectures, contribute to publications and teach students about business preparedness, continuity and cybersecurity practices. He has been a representative of UGA’s CyberArch program since its inception in 2017, helped create the Disaster Recovery and Resilience Special Interest Group for America’s Small Businesses Development Center in 2018, and developed the UGA SBDC’s Disaster Recovery Team in 2019.

Lupo’s unique skillset and experiences proved invaluable over the past year as he coordinated the SBDC’s statewide response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He provided a consistent, centralized base for reliable information and training with hundreds of email updates, more than 50 virtual meetings for SBDC faculty and staff, and dozens of weekly reports to the SBDC leadership team. Lupo also developed the PowerPoint presentation used in all 26 of the SBDC’s initial public information webinars in the spring of 2020, helping over 14,000 people learn about and apply for the various Small Business Association lending programs for businesses struggling during the pandemic.

Lupo is the only known SBDC consultant in the nation to earn the two international certifications that are the highest attainable within business continuity and strategic planning, the Master Business Continuity Professional from the Disaster Recovery Institute International and the Strategic Management Professional from the Association for Strategic Planning.

“Getting small business owners to understand the value and necessity of preparing for emergencies while skies are blue is extremely challenging,” said Deirdre Pattillo, project manager for the University of Texas at San Antonio SBDC COVID Business Recover Accelerator. “Helping them recover from emergencies they didn’t plan for is even more difficult. Mark Lupo has developed the expertise to help small business owners navigate these crises and he makes the expertise available to everyone in our network.”

David TannerCarl Vinson Institute of Government

David Tanner is the associate director of state services and support with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. In his almost nine years at the institute, his work helped launch Georgia’s juvenile justice reform incentive grant, with courts now sending juveniles to treatment rather than detention. Through Tanner’s work on Georgia’s High Demand Career Initiative UGA has helped more than a

dozen communities across the state create workforce development programs.

Tanner led the institute’s initial response to implement Georgia’s juvenile justice reform initiatives, organizing workshops and training materials for juvenile courts on how to apply for funds from a $6 million state appropriation to redirect youth in the juvenile justice system from out-of-home placement to evidence-based mental health programs. The state’s investment in diversion grants has helped redirect more than 7,000 youth to community-based services and drastically reduce the number in state custody.

Tanner also was instrumental in strengthening economic development efforts within the Institute of Government. He was one of the lead facilitators for the State of Georgia’s High Demand Career Initiative, which led to new workforce development contracts with the Georgia Department of Education Career and Technical Education program, the Cobb County Chamber of Commerce and Chattahoochee Technical College. Over the next two years, Tanner and his team helped grow the Institute of Government’s workforce development portfolio from one $79,000 contract to over 14 projects per year totaling more than $500,000 in annual contracts.

Additionally, he spearheaded the Institute of Government’s efforts to help the University System of Georgia (USG) improve its data-informed decision making. Over the past seven years, Tanner and his team have helped USG with data analytics and visualization that informs enrollment management and student success. Overall, USG has invested more than $1.5 million with Tanner and the Institute of Government since 2013.

“[Tanner] is a visionary who impacts critical policy decisions for state government,” said Amy Jacobs, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning. “He truly cares about how his work impacts the state of Georgia. His decades of state government experience allow him to see the big picture and strategically connect the work of many state and local organizations while offering expert advice on how to move policy forward.”


Lisa GentitMarine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant

Lisa Gentit is a marine resource specialist for UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant. Since she joined the unit as a research technician in 2003, Gentit has steadily increased her responsibilities, most recently overseeing the extensive field and lab work on a critical research collaboration with a North Carolina biotechnology company.

The project, a collaboration between Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant and Kepley

BioSystems, involved monitoring the health and behavior of captive horseshoe crabs held in a semi-natural environment. Gentit tested the water quality daily in the tidal pond on Jekyll Island where the crabs were held, fed the crabs, and kept Kepley researchers informed of the crabs’ condition.

Gentit’s work resulted in Kepley BioSystems completing all its research objectives for the project, which makes the projects eligible for second phase funding from the National Science Foundation.

In addition to assisting in research projects at the Marine Extension and GeorgiaSea Grant base in Brunswick, Georgia, Gentit also is a crew member on the R/V Bulldog, and performs the lions share of the work necessary to prepare for an afternoon trip or one that will last several days. She schedules the trips, contactsthe state Department of Natural Resources to let them know the boat is going outper its permit requirements, collects data, maintains the passenger log, sorts the catch from a trawl, helps with education and outreach, and even stocks the boatwith groceries.

As a member of the fisheries team, Gentit also provides advice and instruction on fishing gear and techniques, seafood handling and safety, and water quality to the fishing industry.

The second longest serving employee currently working at Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant’s Brunswick base, she is the go-to person when other employees have questions that require institutional knowledge of UGA’s relationship with Georgia’s coastal community.

“No one can replace Lisa Gentit. She is one of a kind, a sharp scientist with an unmatched work ethic,” said Rachel Kulberg, a research scientist with Kepley BioSystems. “Leveraging her diverse skillset, Lisa helped in every aspect of the project, from constructing enclosures to managing personnel, bleeding horseshoe crabs, and developing new data management processes. It was a great pleasure to get to know and work with her. Bottom line, we could not have completed the project without her.”

Public Service and Outreach Staff Award for Excellence

About the Award

The Public Service and Outreach Staff Award for Excellence, the most prestigious award for Public Service and Outreach staff members, recognizes individuals who have demonstrated a strong work ethic, commitment to service and exceptional job performance. The award honors outstanding effort, encourages workplace creativity and innovation, and celebrates the achieve-ments of Public Service and Outreach staff. Honorees receive a certificate and an engraved award. Eligible staff members must have been employed for a minimum of two continuous years in any Public Service and Outreach unit. The award’s inaugural year was 2006.


Engaged Scholar Award

About the Award

The Engaged Scholar Award, established in 2008 as the Scholarship of Engagement Award, recognizes a tenured associate or full professor who has made significant career-spanning contributions to UGA’s public service and outreach mission through scholarship, service-learning opportunities for students and campus leadership. The award serves to sustain or enhance the honoree’s public service and outreach endeavors or to support the development of new ones.

Edward Delgado-RomeroMary Frances Early College of Education

Edward Delgado-Romero is associate dean and professor of counseling and human development services in the Mary Frances Early College of Education. As the first and only Latinx faculty member tenured and promoted within his department and one of very few Latinx faculty at UGA, Delgado-Romero has increased the engagement of UGA with the Latinx community and helped diversify the student body.

Over his 17 years at the University of Georgia, Delgado-Romero has formed community-university partnerships that address the critical mental health needs of the Latinx population and help train the next generation of bilingual and bicultural psychologists and social workers.

When he arrived at UGA, Delgado-Romero founded BIEN, an integrated multicultural research, teaching and service team for graduate and undergraduate students. While BIEN is inclusive, its emphasis is to help provide culturally and linguistically competent mental health services to Georgia’s Latinx community.

In 2015, Delgado-Romero worked with community partners to establish la Clinica in LaK’ech (la Clinica), a bilingual/bicultural psychological clinic where UGA graduate students provide free services to the Latinx community.As a licensed psychologist, he provides psychological services and supervises doctoral students in their practicum placements. The clinic began with three clinicians and a few clients and quickly grew. In 2015, the clinic provided 40 hours of therapy; in 2019 it was 400 hours. From 2015 to 2020 the clinic saw over 150 clients and provided more than 1,200 hours of therapy.

He created a First-Year Odyssey Seminar that introduced students to research, teaching and service at UGA with the Latinx population. He also created a class, Latinx Mental Health, that meets the Franklin College diversity requirement and introduces students to the psychological issues of U.S. Latinx people. The course has been replicated at universities across the country.

“Dr. Delgado-Romero and his team of students have played an integral role in meeting the behavioral health needs of our Latinx patients, while simultaneously modeling culturally sensitive care that has translated to improved practices in our clinic setting,” said Kristi Gilleland, director of Whole Person Care at Mercy Health Center in Athens. “Since 2015, Dr. Delgado-Romero and his students have provided counseling services for over 100 of our patients, with a focused emphasis on our Spanish-speaking Latinx population.”


Four for the FutureNow in its ninth year, the Four for the Future Awards, co-sponsored by Georgia Trend magazine and UGA, recognize communities and regions that have worked across public- private sector and nonprofit boundaries to address challenges in ways that will lead to improved quality of life. These partnerships demonstrate effective collaboration, leadership and innovation, and offer the promise of long-term community benefits. The 2021 recipients are:

Washington County Branding Initiative Washington County and its eight communities have a lot to offer but did not have a unified brand identity, tools or message needed to maximize promotion, marketing and economic development efforts. The Carl Vinson Institute of Government was commissioned by Archway

Partnership on behalf of Washington County to facilitate a countywide branding process and create a brand identity. Vinson Institute graphic designers took the information provided by county residents and created a visual identity that captured the county’s diverse and unique sense of place. Each community designed its own logo to fit within the county brand. The county now has tools to use for recruiting industry and the Chamber of Commerce has a brand message to attract tourism, enhance marketing and aid local merchants.

Barrow County Grow It Know It A needs assessment conducted by UGA showed that teachers in Barrow

County were overwhelmingly enthusiastic about farm to school programming. However, there are significant barriers to starting the programs, including a need for teacher training, support for starting and managing school gardens, securing garden materials and supplies, coordinating cooking activities, and integrating farm to school programming into the curriculum. The

Office of Service-Learning partnered with Barrow County Extension, Georgia Farm Bureau, and Barrow County School District to launch Grow It Know It (GIKI), an experiential training program for educators to learn a food- and garden-based curriculum. Since 2018, 53 Barrow County educators have participated in Grow It Know It training, serving 1,239 students in 2019-2020. UGA received a $150,703 USDA grant to support the Barrow County farm to school effort through GIKI.

NewTown Macon Entrepreneurial Leadership AcademyThe nonprofit NewTown Macon, which focuses on economic and cultural development in downtown Macon, saw that many people trying to start new businesses needed coaching to help them find funding. Current and aspiring business owners also needed leadership and entrepreneurial skills. So NewTown Macon reached out to the J.W. Fanning

Institute for Leadership Development for help. Fanning faculty designed curriculum for the NewTown Macon Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy and facilitated the first class in fall 2018. Over four sessions, participants focused on leadership skills critical to carrying out a business vision, and learned more about business plan development. Participant Scott Mitchell, owner of Travis Jean Emporium, reported that his revenue increased in the months following the academy. Also, Mitchell became more involved in the business community, which he said also opened doors for his business.

Camden County Coastal Green Infrastructure The Camden County Extension office regularly experienced flooding when it rained. In addressing that problem, Camden County and Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant created a demonstration site to support educational outreach and engagement. Using grant money from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to fund the project and assistance from state

and local partners, Camden County Extension now has a 262-square-foot bioretention cell that manages more than 14,000 gallons of water annually. The bioretention cell not only addressed the county extensions office’s flooding problem, but provided a new teaching tool to help local residents learn about stormwater management. In addition, a UGA Public Service and Outreach Student Scholar, who interned with Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant, helped design the cell and coordinate construction training for Camden County’s Public Works Department—a valuable experiential learning opportunity.


Public Service and Outreach Student Scholars ProgramThe Public Service and Outreach Student Scholars Program, supported by the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach, provides undergraduate students with the experience of an internship in a Public Service and Outreach unit as well as cohort group activities to explore the purpose, breadth and depth of public service and outreach. The program helps students relate these experiences to their educational and career goals and creates a community of undergraduate student scholars who understand the role of public service and outreach in Georgia and more broadly. The 2020-2021 Public Service and Outreach Student Scholars are listed with their major and their internships in a Public Service and Outreach unit.

• Olivia Ammons, International Affairs & MPA, Archway Partnership

• Olivia Bauer, International Affairs & History; French, Carl Vinson Institute of Government

• Christy Chu, International Affairs & Political Science; Spanish, Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach

• Landon Clark, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Genetics, Office of Service-Learning

• Giselle Fonseca, Economics & Political Science; Latinx Studies, J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development

• Erick Gaona Salazar, International Affairs; Spanish, J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development

• Suzanne Kebanli, Advertising; Spanish; Communication Studies, UGA Center for Continuing Education & Hotel

• Vanisha Kudumuri, Economics; International Affairs; Political Science, J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development

• Matt McFadden, Microbiology; Spanish, State Botanical Garden of Georgia

• Rashawn Merchant, Environmental Economics and Management; Urban & Metropolitan Studies, Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant

• Claudia Miklosik, Psychology; Geography; Sustainability Certificate, Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant

• Erin Miles, International Affairs; Psychology, J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development

• Grant Mitchell, Public Relations; Leadership in Student Affairs; Political Science, Office of Service-Learning

• Hannah Mone, Biology; Ecology, Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant

• Lora Nedza, Political Science & MPA, Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant

• Aashka Sheth, Nutritional Sciences; Spanish; Global Health, State Botanical Garden of Georgia

• Kate Thompson, International Affairs; Public Policy and Management, Carl Vinson Institute of Government

• Sydney Thornton, Anthropology; Japanese Language & Literature, State Botanical Garden of Georgia

• Sophia Trentacosta, Political Science; Psychology, Archway Partnership

• Suvitha Viswanathan, Biology; Human Development & Family Sciences, Office of Service-Learning

• Claudia White, Public Health, State Botanical Garden of Georgia

• Joy Xiao, Accounting & Management Information Systems; Computer Science & Statistics, Small Business Development Center


PUBLIC SERVICE AND OUTREACH UNITS

The ARCHWAY PARTNERSHIP establishes long-term relationships with selected communities to identify the issues they face and then coordinates UGA faculty, staff and other resources to help them address their community and economic development needs. Seven counties in Georgia are participating; six have al ready graduated from the program.

Michelle Elliot, [email protected], 478-697-4522

The CARL VINSON INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT provides training and development, specialized assistance and data-driven studies to help governments throughout Georgia and the world become more efficient, more responsive and better managed.

Rob Gordon, [email protected], 706-542-6192

The CENTER FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION & HOTEL is a 300,000-square-foot, comprehensive public service educational unit that annually enrolls more than 100,000 adults in its on-site and distance-learning programs. Other activities for the campus, community and state serve an additional 100,000 people each year.

Stacy Jones, [email protected], 706-542-3451

The J.W. FANNING INSTITUTE FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT works with communities, nonprofits, professional associations and youth to help develop knowledgeable, skilled and committed leadership that will enhance community and economic development in Georgia communities, the nation and beyond.

Matt Bishop, [email protected], 706-542-6201

MARINE EXTENSION AND GEORGIA SEA GRANT works to increase the efficiency of existing marine industries, to identify new industries that do not harm the environment and to increase public awareness and understanding of coastal ecosystems. The programs delivered through locations in Athens, Atlanta and on the coast extend economic and cultural benefits throughout the state and region. Georgia Sea Grant sponsors research that addresses problems unique to Georgia as well as other research that has a national scope.

Mark Risse, [email protected], 706-542-5956

The OFFICE OF SERVICE-LEARNING supports UGA faculty members in increasing and expanding service-learning opportunities for students in campus-based and study abroad courses. The unit also cultivates community-based partnerships that respond to expressed community needs. The Office of Service-Learning re ports to the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach and the Office of the Vice President for Instruction.

Shannon Brooks, [email protected], 706-542-0535

The SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER provides a wide range of educational opportunities to small business owners, potential entrepreneurs and community leadership organizations that support efforts to create, sustain or expand business ventures.

Allan Adams, [email protected], 706-542-2762

The STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA provides the public and UGA faculty and students opportunities for education, research and events through its natural areas, display gardens and building spaces.

Jennifer Cruse-Sanders, [email protected], 706-542-6131


2020Hill FellowWalt McBride

Hill AwardJennifer CeskaKris IrwinShana JonesEleanor LanierMara ShawEngaged Scholar AwardStephan DurhamStaff AwardCora KeberT. Clark Stancil

2019Hill FellowStanley Culpepper

Hill AwardJeffrey HumphreysAmanda Burgess MarableDavid MeyersWilliam G. TysonTheresa WrightEngaged Scholar AwardAlexander ScherrStaff AwardGenell Gibson

2018Hill FellowKim Coder

Hill AwardJulia GaskinBeverly E. JohnsonTori StiversEngaged Scholar AwardRuth HarmanStaff AwardJames Marty Higgins

2017Hill AwardTracy ArnerMelanie BiersmithDanny BivinsDennis HancockJanet Rechtman

Engaged Scholar AwardTina HarrisStaff AwardKate Smith

2016Hill FellowKaren PayneHill AwardEllen BauskePhillip BrannenDavid MoorheadEngaged Scholar AwardPhillip TomporowskiStaff AwardFei Zhang

2015Hill FellowEric P. ProstkoHill AwardAlfredo Marinez- EspinozaRaye RawlsPaula E. StanfordClint WaltzEngaged Scholar AwardAnna KarlsStaff AwardSandy Christopher

2014Hill FellowJeffrey R. SanfordHill AwardSue W. ChapmanGeorge Weston Clarke Jr.Stanley CulpepperRobert C. Kemerait Jr.Engaged Scholar AwardMarsha DavisStaff AwardKaren DuncanMelanie HardmanLindsey Parker

2013Hill FellowRonnie Barentine

Hill AwardMatthew L. BishopJanet BittnerLori Purcell Bledsoe Doris MillerJohn WorleyEngaged Scholar AwardLance PalmerStaff AwardDan EvansTim HolcombLinda Rhodes

2012Hill FellowL. Ray “Rusty” BrooksHill AwardGlenn H. BeardW. Dennis EppsMaritza Soto Keen Margaret E. MelnikEric P. ProstkoSOE AwardLorilee R. SandmannStaff AwardMichelle BaileyEmily DavisKathy Hart

2011Hill FellowL. Mark RisseHill AwardJudy HibbsLouise HillRichard C. LacyWalt McBrideKaren PayneSOE AwardDavid C. BerleStaff AwardStephanie EdgecombeLisa Lynn KeslerLarry Welborn

2010Hill FellowMark Foster

Hill AwardW. Don ShurleyPaul D. WigleySOE AwardNancy WilliamsStaff AwardAnnie BurgessMelanie Lee

2009Hill FellowKeith DelaplaneHill AwardRonnie BarentineRobert BrewerMark RissePhillip RobertsMichael RupuredSOE AwardVirginia NazareaStaff AwardDianne CampbellMarie Scoggins

2008Hill FellowJudy A. HarrisonHill AwardGail HanulaJohn O’LooneyPaul SumnerPaul VendrellJeanna WilsonSOE AwardWilliam KisaalitaStaff AwardAnne ShenkKitty Shollenberger

2007Hill FellowDeborah W. Purvis

Hill AwardJoanne S. CavisKim CoderKeith DelaplaneLaurie FowlerPaul HardyStaff AwardDebra Gates

James H. GilstrapJann Moore

2006Hill FellowMary E. StakesHill AwardEric S. BonaparteSteve L. BrownPratt W. Cassity Jr.Harry W. HayesT. Brian Tankersley

Staff AwardRichard HitchcockJames McKayTiffany Williams

2005Hill FellowElizabeth L. Andress

Hill AwardJorge H. AtilesL. Steven DempseyMark FosterGordon ManerJohn C. McKissick

2004Hill FellowStephen E. CondreyHill AwardL. Ray “Rusty” BrooksJudy A. HarrisonAnant V. JainKenneth L. LewisF. Richard Rohs

2003Hill FellowDonald W. BowerHill AwardScott N. BrownJohn R. GlissonWilliam C. MerkaRichard L. MilfordJeffrey R. Sanford

2002Hill FellowDan Durning

Hill AwardConnie CrawleyFrances HensleyDan L. HortonDeborah W. PurvisMary E. Stakes

2001Hill FellowDouglas C. BachtelHill AwardElizabeth L. AndressJudy BlandJob P. DielemanP. Elizabeth PateWilliam P. Russell

2000Hill FellowHelen H. MillsHill AwardJames M. AffolterDan DurningHenry E. HibbsDavid P. Mills Jr.Reid L. Torrance

1999Hill FellowBeverly L. SparksHill AwardDouglas C. BachtelRobert T. DixonMelinda D. HawleySally Hudson RossDarbie M. Granberry

1998Hill FellowKathleen E. WagesHill AwardStephen E. CondreyJohn H. JeffreysMichael J. PadillaRichard D. ReavesBeverly L. Sparks

1997Hill FellowHoward A. SchretterHill AwardDonald W. BowerPaul E. Glick

Previous Awards


William M. OzburnDavid A. PayneLamar E. Zipperer

1996Hill FellowJohn M. WoodruffHill AwardCarvin L. BrownJames L. CooleyMargaret S. HermanMichael P. LacyKathleen E. Wages

1995Hill FellowMary A. HepburnHill AwardJames A. FeldtEdwin L. JacksonHelen H. MillsJoy P. JohnsonGary L. Wade

1994Hill FellowJames E. KundellHill AwardWalter A. DeneroDavid L. HarringtonHoward A. SchretterCharles R. SwansonJohn M. Woodruff

1993Hill FellowWanda J. GroganHill AwardCarolyn M. AinslieRonald C. AtkinsonJohn R. Cole Jr.William R. LambertSam M. Mitchell

1992Hill FellowEdward A. Brown IIHill AwardEdward A. Brown IIWanda J. GroganMary A. HepburnHarold F. Holtz Jr.James E. Kundell

30th annual public service and outreach awards

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